• To read the article, click here.

We warmly invite you to attend the next webinar in the 'Tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system' Discussion Series. On 12 May 2022 at 10:30 CEST, we will explore tipping towards positive social change with two talks:

• Social tipping dynamics – Ilona Otto (University of Graz)
• What are the sensitive intervention points needed to make the green energy transition happen as quickly as possible? – Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford)

To register, please see the Discussion Series website.

The second Model Hierarchies workshop will be held 29 August - 1 September 2022, as a 3.5-day in-person (covid permitting) workshop at Stanford, CA (USA). As last time, we solicit talks on the design and use of modeling hierarchies in all aspects of Earth system science, covering the major climate system components -- atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere, biosphere -- but this time also underline our interest in exploring the ways in which such models are connected to the downstream uses of this data in the study of climate impacts. The workshop will be structured around talks in a single-session format, interspersed with poster sessions during the recesses. There will be plenty of time in between sessions for collaborative and social discussion.

• Deadline for abstract submission and application for financial support is extended to 15 May 2022, don't miss the date!
  
• To visit the workshop website and to register and submit your abstract, click here

The International CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel (CDP) plans to organize workshops annually. The first CDP annual workshop will target our understanding of internal and externally forced variability in the climate system, their interaction on decadal timescales and longer, and the effects of variability on extreme events. We invite submissions on the topic with the aim of tackling the following overarching questions:

• How to isolate the relative contributions of external and internal variability to observed decadal and longer variability?
• How do the various external forcings modulate internal variability？
• Progress in narrowing observational and modeling uncertainties in external and internal variability
• Effects of external and internal variability on extreme events

The workshop will consist of 6 weekly 2-hour sessions from September 12th to October 21st, 2022, including 4 oral sessions, 1 poster session and 1 final panel discussion.

• Abstract submission deadline: June 24, 2022
• Registration deadline: September 1, 2022
• To know more and register, visit the event website

The second GCOS Climate Observation Conference (17-19 October 2022, Darmstadt, Germany) will focus on activities and solutions that help to achieve a fully implemented, sustainable, and fit for purpose global observing system for climate. The Conference will also provide the occasion to celebrate GCOS 30^th Anniversary and take stock of the progress achieved by the global observing community in the last three decades. The Conference will be in person, even though hybrid options will be made available too.

Abstracts can be submitted online for either an oral or poster presentation. The abstract submission deadline is 1 June 2022: only 6 weeks left!

• Deadline for registration: 23 September 2022
• For more information, please visit the conference website 

The second Model Hierarchies workshop will be held 29 August - 1 September 2022, as a 3.5-day in-person (covid permitting) workshop at Stanford, CA (USA). As last time, we solicit talks on the design and use of modeling hierarchies in all aspects of Earth system science, covering the major climate system components -- atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere, biosphere -- but this time also underline our interest in exploring the ways in which such models are connected to the downstream uses of this data in the study of climate impacts. The workshop will be structured around talks in a single-session format, interspersed with poster sessions during the recesses. There will be plenty of time in between sessions for collaborative and social discussion.

• Deadline for abstract submission and application for financial support : 30 april 2022
• To visit the workshop website and to register and submit your abstract, click here

The second GCOS Climate Observation Conference (17-19 October 2022, Darmstadt, Germany) will focus on activities and solutions that help to achieve a fully implemented, sustainable, and fit for purpose global observing system for climate. The Conference will also provide the occasion to celebrate GCOS 30^th Anniversary and take stock of the progress achieved by the global observing community in the last three decades. The Conference will be in person, even though hybrid options will be made available too.

• Deadline for abstract submission: 1 June 2022
• Deadline for registration: 23 September 2022
• For more information, please visit the conference website 

The WCRP Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) organises a hybrid workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models, hosted by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), in Reading (UK) on 31 October - 4 November 2022. The workshop brings together a wide range of experts on simulating the Earth System including atmosphere, ocean, waves, land-surface, atmospheric composition, cryosphere, and associated disciplines to advance the understanding of systematic simulation errors at all timescales.

Early career researchers from selected countries will be able to enter a competition for best abstracts for oral presentations. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is pleased to offer funding for travel to ECMWF (UK) to the winners of the competition. Please see https://events.ecmwf.int/event/241/page/122-abstract-competition for details.

• Deadline for abstract submission: 31 May 2022
• To kow more about the workshop, click here.
• To download the flyer, click here.

A virtual summer school on 'Attribution, causality, and decision-making' in climate variability and change will run from 6-10 June 2022. Topics will include event attribution, trend attribution, philosophical issues in attribution, causality, and decision-making. The summer school is run by the joint Reading-Imperial Ph.D. programme, “Mathematics of Planet Earth,” and is co-sponsored by WCRP, through the My Climate Risk (MCR) Lighthouse Activity, and by the Walker Institute (a planned MCR hub). 

A more detailed syllabus and information on how to apply can be found on the summer school webpage. The deadline for applications is 2 May 2022.

The main session of the 43^rd Joint Scientific Committee meeting (JSC-43) will be held virtually during 27 June- July 1, with a JSC-only meeting to be held around a week later.

Attendance at this virtual JSC-43 is by invitation only. Should you wish to attend please contact Mike Sparrow (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

For further details see: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/jsc43-about.

The WCRP My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity invites interested researchers to nominate themselves for its Scientific Steering Group (SSG), which is responsible for the overall scientific direction of the activity. To find out more and to apply, please see the open call webpage.

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WCRP is delighted to announce that the WCRP Open Science Conference (OSC) 2023 (#WCRP2023) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda on 23-27 October 2023, at the Kigali Convention Centre.

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), on behalf of the Government of Rwanda, provided a strong proposal to host the WCRP OSC 2023 in Kigali and will support WCRP to deliver a true hybrid event. This event at the heart of the African continent will allow strong engagement with research communities, stakeholders and practitioners in Rwanda and the region. This will be facilitated by joint efforts with local partners, such as the Rwanda Meteorology Agency and the University of Rwanda.

The WCRP OSC 2023 Scientific Organising Committee has already started to discuss the format of the conference to ensure that it will foster future climate science leadership, through workshops, public exhibits, forums, and other associated events. A fundraising drive is also in place, as well discussions on innovative ways to deliver effective remote participation options to ensure inclusion and engagement while minimizing our carbon footprint.

The path is set! All roads lead to Kigali!

To know more click here.

SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate) is holding its 7^th General Assembly (GA) from 24^th to 28^th October 2022. The format of the SPARC GA will be different from past GAs, as it will be on a multi-hub basis with three locations (hubs) confirmed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, USA, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), in Reading, UK, and the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) in Qingdao, China.

• Abstract submissions and travel support requests are now open.
• For more information and submissions, visit the conference webpage and announcement.

March 2022

The future of CMIP and climate modelling

In this issue of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Insights, we focus on the future of climate modelling. There is an ever-increasing demand on climate models to answer questions about what our climate will be like in the next years, decades and centuries. In 2022, the WCRP community will be looking at the best way forward to ensure that we are ready to answer those questions to our best ability.